2012 - Jan - Beta testing of the new iBID version Help files and user support system.

2011 - Dec - Study day for iBID users in Manchester with an introduction to the new version of the software.

2011 - Sept - Initiation meeting of the Patient Level Costing Project, Birmingham

2011 - Sept - Fourth meeting of the NNBC Informatics Group.

2011 - Apr - Third meeting of the NNBC Informatics Group.

2011 - Apr - Presentation at the British Burn Association meeting, Brighton of the initial findings of mortality prediction scoring to the iBID data.

2011 - Jan - Second meeting of the NNBC Informatics Group.

2011 - Jan - Application to the NHS PbR Team to become a Development Site.

2011 - Jan - Report of TMV research by research partner Prof D Kendrick concerning bath scald prevention.

2010 - Dec - First results from completed analysis of 20yrs of HES burns admissions data to augment and validate iBID analysis.

2010 - Nov - Inaugural meeting of the NNBC Informatics Group.

2010 - Oct - Further meeting with the NHS.IC and PbR Teams regarding progress and next steps with the PLC pilot project.

2010 - Sep - Presentation of the initial results from combined analysis of HES and iBID data to the Safety Conference in London.

2010 - Jun - Terms of Reference agreed for the Informatics Group, a sub-group of the NNBC to take forward the informatics requirements of the NNBC.

2010 - Jun - Collaborative research agreement reached with injury prevention researchers at Nottingham University, lead by Prof D. Kendrick.

2010 - May - Plymouth burn service begins iBID data contributions.

2010 - May - Further HES extract from the NHS IC to cover the years 1989-2009 for NHS hospitals in England and Wales.

2010 - Apr - Leicester burn service begins iBID data contributions.

2010 - Mar - Initial contact with the Australian and New Zealand Burns Association (ANZBA) with a view to collaboration and data sharing. Their Bi-National Burns Registry (Bi-NBR) went 'live'.

2010 - Mar - Collaboration with Northwick Park specialised rehabilitation service on Patient Level Costing of burn rehabilitation.

2010 - Feb - Database design day for burns service users to scope work to date.

2010 - Feb - Inaugural meeting of the National Network for Burn Care (NNBC) replacing the larger National Burn Care Group (NBCG 2003-2009).

2010 - Feb - Middlesbrough burn service begins iBID data contributions.

2009 - Dec - Fourth study day for iBID users.

2009 - Sept - Finalisation of the design principles of the next version of the iBID software.

2009 - Jul - Further meeting with the Payment by Results team to discuss progress with the PLC pilot.

2009 - Jun - Meeting of the iBID design team for 2 days to consider all sections of the new software design.

2009 - Apr - Presentation to the British Burn Association (BBA) meeting in Belfast of the major design additions to the iBID software, including: real time error checking and data validation to improve data quality / fundamental re-design of the user interface with the ability to create an entire care record covering multiple admissions and outpatient attendances / visual diary system to present care pathway and events / incorporation of Patient Level Costing (PLC) data requirement.

2009 - Mar - Belfast burn service begins iBID data contributions.

2009 - Jan - Release of the first downloadable service pack update for the iBID software package.

2008 - Nov - Initiation of collaboration with UK TARN to look at major trauma workload.

2008 - Oct - Third study day for database users.

2008 - Sep - Presentation of burn care costs and PLC analysis to ISBI and ANZBA meetings

2008 - May - First iBID report covering the initial five year period of data collection from Jan 2003 to Dec 2007.

2008 - Oct - Third study day for database users.

2008 - Aug - Initial sense check meeting with the NHS PbR Team to consider the plans for the PLC pilot study.

2008 - Mar - Report generation commenced using NBID Analysis II software, allowing the generation of pdf reports automatically from templates.

2007 - Oct - The iBID web site goes 'live'.

2007 - Mar - Second study day for database users.

2007 - Apr - Initiation of the Patient Level Costing for burn care pilot in South Manchester.

2007 - Feb - Cost of Burn Care study Day in Manchester with BBA, PbR team, NHS.IC and commissioners of specialised health services representation. Conclusion that current Health Resource Groupings (HRG) cannot accurately reflect burn care costs.

2006 - Dec - Initial training and use of MapInfo software to allow the use of GIS methodology to present burn injury information.

2006 - Apr - First study day for database users.

2005 - Sep - Presentation to the European Burns Association (EBA) meeting about the initiation of the data collection.

2005 - Jun - First reports produced and circulated to contributing burn services.

2005 - Apr - Special Interest Group meeting at the BBA meeting in Dublin to introduce the database software and the plans for analysis and reporting. This was followed by site initiation on 18 sites and an agreement to collect 2yrs of retrospective activity data allowing analysis from Jan 2003.